special voice fx

If you have Soundflower installed, the Mac OS speech synth output can be routed back to Max for audio processing. This is somewhat complicated, but shows how to process audio in Max from other sources.

In MacOS System Preferences, set audio output device to Soundflower 2ch

Turn up hardware volume control on your computer

In Max, Options | Audio Status, set input device to Soundflower 2ch

In world3.maxpat double click on [p audio engine] (lower left). Then in the audio-engine sub-patch activate the toggle, (lower right) for voice-fx

data recording

The built-in data recorder/playback is on the left side of world3.maxpat:

toggle ‘record’ (red toggle) to start or stop data recording

Note that data will only be recorded when the php program is streaming Tweets in the terminal window (see above)